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on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:43PM
from the never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste dept.
from the never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste dept.
A U.S. senator plans to introduce legislation that would delay the end of the bulk collection of phone metadata by the National Security Agency to Jan. 31, 2017, in the wake of security concerns after the terror attacks last Friday in Paris.
Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, believes that the termination of the program, scheduled for month-end under the USA Freedom Act, "takes us from a constitutional, legal, and proven NSA collection architecture to an untested, hypothetical one that will be less effective."
The transition will happen in less than two weeks, at a time when the threat level for the U.S. is "incredibly high," he said Tuesday.
The obvious answer to doing something that doesn't work is to do more of that something.
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In Wake of Paris Attacks, Legislation Aims to Extend NSA Program
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Many a man who thinks he's going on a maiden voyage with
a woman finds out later that it was just a shake-down cruise.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by goodie on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:24PM
Show us concrete evidence of all the cases where this method, and this method alone, prevented something from happening. For real. Not some hypothetical crap like "you know, this could have happened". One of the major long term consequences of the Paris attacks is that defense and security budgets will once again be jacked up for no reason other than to fill the pockets of the people running them. Oh that and systematic anal probing at airport checks...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:31PM
Oh, the anal probing won't stop at the airport. I've seen TSA thugs in the NYC subway. I've read they conduct random stops on the highways. Why do you think they won't expand their brief to randomly search your office or bedroom? If no one stops them, they will.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kromagv0 on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:41PM
Show us concrete evidence of all the cases where this method, and this method alone, prevented something from happening. For real. Not some hypothetical crap like "you know, this could have happened".
They can't, they have previously admitted that bulk surveillance hasn't done jack [washingtontimes.com].
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 2) by Mr Big in the Pants on Thursday November 19 2015, @04:09PM
Explain exactly why they would? Or why that is even necessary anymore? You mention the TSA which is funny since they HAVE asked those questions and been shown that this organisation is almost completely useless and yet it persists at great expense.
Face it. Your country (and others) have been asleep too long and bull is very much out of the gate.
Paris is just another excuse to continue with the same plan: the complete and utter annihilation of privacy leading to an environment in which any level of control can be exerted on the citizenry.